Glossary

B : 141 Terms

• Birmingham Cholera Outbreak of 1873
  Just two years after its founding, Birmingham, Jefferson County, was beset by a deadly cholera epidemic...
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
  The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, located opposite the city's historic Sixteenth Street Baptist...
• Birmingham District Coal Strike of 1908
  In 1908, Birmingham witnessed one of the most remarkable labor disputes in American history. A bitter...
• Birmingham Iron and Steel Companies
  Birmingham owes its 1871 founding to the geological uniqueness of the Jones Valley, the only place on...
• Birmingham Museum of Art
  Situated in downtown Birmingham, Jefferson County, the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) offers the largest...
•  The Birmingham News 
  The Birmingham News is Alabama's largest newspaper. The paper has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for investigative...
•  Birmingham News Series on Tax Reform
  When editorial writers for the  Bi rmingham  News...
• Birmingham Pledge
  The Birmingham Pledge is a statement of principles at the heart of a grassroots effort, started in Birmingham...
• Birmingham Public Library
  Established in 1886, the Birmingham Public Library has grown from a small collection of books kept in...
• Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College
  Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College traces its origin to 1904, when two African American ministers,...